In the quaint fenced courtyard at the entrance to the friary at St. Casimir in Canton, the sweet chirping of birds can be heard, seemingly from the surrounding trees.Read More
While others may have been busy playing video games or watching television, 17-year-old Glenn Bullock helped develop voice-control computer software for cars.Read More
SCRANTON, Pa. – Doctrinal issues led agenda items at the spring session of the Polish National Catholic Church-Roman Catholic Dialogue held in Scranton at the PNCC’s National Church Center.Read More
WASHINGTON – With the two major parties’ nominees for president apparently decided and attention turning to their vice-presidential choices, an old question inevitably arises in certain circles – how to corral the “Catholic vote” in November.Read More
Jerome Junior, a recent graduate of Archbishop Curley High School in Baltimore, and Lindsay Pisanic, a rising junior at Mount de Sales Academy in Catonsville, won the only decathlon and heptathlon championships held for high school students in Maryland.Read More
The Catholic Review has addressed the issue of insensate inner city violence (CR/May 29). Would any concerned not accept that there subsists in the city the fundamental problem of the breakdown of families? And in accepting this tragic reality, is it not reasonable to first address, with enduring rapidity, Planned Parenthood, which has been unrelenting...Read More
In the May 22 issue, The Catholic Review printed a brief article about the Vatican astronomer saying it’s okay to believe in aliens, a position that was criticized in a letter by Louie Verrecchio on May 29. Mr. Verrecchio says that all forms of life are sinful and in need of redemption.Read More
I noticed that you devoted 18 column-inches to cover the death penalty in Maryland (CR/May 29) but buried Senator Kennedy’s support for abortion in the last three quarters of a column-inch of an article praising the senator. Assuming all life is equal, I compared the total number of executions in the United States since 1977...Read More
Maria Kroat was a second-grader the last time she saw a “B” on her report card. For the next decade, the parishioner of Our Lady of Hope in Dundalk earned nothing but straight As – making her one of the top students at Our Lady of Hope-St. Luke School in Dundalk and the Institute of...Read More
WASHINGTON – For Pepperdine law professor Douglas Kmiec, a constitutional lawyer who often writes on religion in the public square, the situation had uncomfortable echoes of the last presidential election cycle – a priest was refusing to give Communion to someone on the basis of the man’s support of a candidate.Read More
WARSAW, Poland – The remains of the parents of St. Therese of Lisieux, France, have been exhumed as French Catholics await the couple’s expected beatification.Read More
CHICAGO – A Chicago Catholic priest criticized for a speech in which he mocked Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York has been temporarily removed from his pastoral duties by Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago.Read More